By Matt Coker April 21, 2011

Rising from the ashes of the Newport Beach International Film Festival, which crashed and burned in 1999, version 2.0 ditched "international" from the title (but thankfully not the programming). It hummed along quite nicely heading into this 12th year, attracting 51,000 mostly indie movie lovers in 2010. But like a plot point in a no-budget zombie flick, danger lurked... More >>>